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آفتاب و ماه دو گاو خراس ** گرد میگردند و میدارند پاس
- The sun and moon are two mill-oxen, going round and round and keeping watch (over the world).
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اختران هم خانه خانه میدوند ** مرکب هر سعد و نحسی میشوند 920
- The stars likewise run from house to house (in the sky) and convey every good and evil fortune.
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اختران چرخ گر دورند هی ** وین حواست کاهلاند و سستپی
- Hark, though the stars of heaven are far away and thy senses are (too) dull and slack (to apprehend their motions),
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اختران چشم و گوش و هوش ما ** شب کجااند و به بیداری کجا
- (Yet ask thyself) where are our stars—eye, ear, and mind—at night, and where (are they) when we are awake?
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گاه در سعد و وصال و دلخوشی ** گاه در نحس فراق و بیهشی
- Now (they are) in good luck and union and happiness; now in ill-luck and separation and insensibility.
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ماه گردون چون درین گردیدنست ** گاه تاریک و زمانی روشنست
- Since the moon of heaven is (engaged) in making this circuit, she is sometimes dark and sometimes bright.
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گه بهار و صیف همچون شهد و شیر ** گه سیاستگاه برف و زمهریر 925
- Sometimes ’tis spring and summer, (delicious) as honey and milk; sometimes (the world is) a place of punishment by snow and piercing cold.
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چونک کلیات پیش او چو گوست ** سخره و سجده کن چوگان اوست
- Seeing that before Him (God) universals are like a ball, subject (to Him) and prostrating themselves before His bat,
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تو که یک جزوی دلا زین صدهزار ** چون نباشی پیش حکمش بیقرار
- How shouldst thou, O heart, which art (but) one of these hundred thousand particulars, not be in restless movement at His decree?
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چون ستوری باش در حکم امیر ** گه در آخر حبس گاهی در مسیر
- Be at the disposal of the Prince, like a horse (or mule), now confined in the stable, now going (on the road).
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چونک بر میخت ببندد بسته باش ** چونک بگشاید برو بر جسته باش
- When He fastens thee to a peg, be fastened (quiet and submissive); when He looses thee, go, be exultant (prance and bound).
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آفتاب اندر فلک کژ میجهد ** در سیهروزی خسوفش میدهد 930
- (But keep on the right road, for when) the sun in heaven jumps crookedly, He causes it to be eclipsed in black disgrace,
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کز ذنب پرهیز کن هین هوشدار ** تا نگردی تو سیهرو دیگوار
- Saying, “Avoid the (Dragon's) Tail: hark, take heed, lest thou become black of face like a cooking-pot.”
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ابر را هم تازیانهی آتشین ** میزنندش کانچنان رو نه چنین
- The cloud, too, is lashed with a whip of fire, (as through to say), “Go that way, do not go this way!
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بر فلان وادی ببار این سو مبار ** گوشمالش میدهد که گوش دار
- Rain upon such and such a valley, do not rain in this quarter”: He reprimands it, saying, “Give ear!
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عقل تو از آفتابی بیش نیست ** اندر آن فکری که نهی آمد مهایست
- Thy reason is not superior to a sun: do not stay in (dally with) a thought that has been forbidden.
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کژ منه ای عقل تو هم گام خویش ** تا نیاید آن خسوف رو به پیش 935
- O Reason, do not thou too step crookedly, lest that eclipse of (the bright) face befall (thee).
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چون گنه کمتر بود نیم آفتاب ** منکسف بینی و نیمی نورتاب
- When (thy) sin is less, thou wilt see half the sun eclipsed and half radiant,
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که به قدر جرم میگیرم ترا ** این بود تقریر در داد و جزا
- For I punish thee in proportion to thy sin: this is the principle laid down for justice and retribution.
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خواه نیک و خواه بد فاش و ستیر ** بر همه اشیا سمیعیم و بصیر
- Whether (thou art) good or bad or open or secret, I am He that overheareth and overseeth all things.”
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زین گذر کن ای پدر نوروز شد ** خلق از خلاق خوش پدفوز شد
- Leave this topic, O father: New Year's Day is come: the creatures have had their mouths made sweet by the Creator.
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باز آمد آب جان در جوی ما ** باز آمد شاه ما در کوی ما 940
- The spiritual Water (of Life) has returned into our river-bed, our King has returned into our street.
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میخرامد بخت و دامن میکشد ** نوبت توبه شکستن میزند
- Fortune is strutting and (proudly) trailing her skirt and beating the drums (as a signal) to break vows of repentance.
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توبه را بار دگر سیلاب برد ** فرصت آمد پاسبان را خواب برد
- Once more the flood-water has swept repentance away: the opportunity has arrived, the watchman is overcome by sleep.
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هر خماری مست گشت و باده خورد ** رخت را امشب گرو خواهیم کرد
- Every toper has drunk the wine and is intoxicated: to-night we will pawn all our belongings.